Tropical Flamingo Holiday Card by Danielle Pandeline

Tropical Holiday Cheer! 

Here is a fun way to create a tropical Holiday card by Danielle!  Danielle used our cute litte flamingo couple from the  Flirty Flamingos stamp set and then added in the little santa hat from the Flaky Family stamp set! What a fun way to make a Christmas card for someone who has more of a "tropical" holiday. She did add a bit of fun snow in too- so it's a fun mix of both!

You can head over to  Danielle's blog Girl Racer Scrap to say hello and see what else she's been creating! You can also subscribe to her youtube channel Girl Racer Photo to see her fun videos too! 

Enter our Inky Paws challenge  - Christmas Theme!

YOU still have util FRIDAY, December 12th to enter our current Inky Paws Challenge! Just create a card or project with a Christmas theme using NND products!  The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! You can view full details and link up your card to our Inky Paws Challenge on this post.

If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still use the digital freebies on our freebies page here.

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws BLOG HOP WINNERS

Thank you to everyone for participating in our blog hop. We really enjoy reading all of your comments! Check out below to see if you won! The the blogs and the comments were chosen using Random.org. 

The Winners are....

The first winner of $10 Store Credit  to Newton's Nook Designs is from Shellye McDaniel's blog:

And the second winner of $10 Store Credit  to Newton's Nook Designs is from Heather Hoffman's blog:

Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 7 days to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and email address so we can set up your store credit. 

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Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!

Welcome to our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!!

Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of this post to see the whole link list -- there are 16 awesome blogs for you to visit today! Plus you can comment for your chance to win a prize too! Details at the end of this post!

Naughty or Nice Newton?

The blog hop starts here, with a card featuring Newton's Curious Christmas! Since our kitty Newton is both naughty and nice - I thought I'd color this kitty to be orange like him. I love this image of the kitty in the tree - it looks like he could either be decorating the tree or being naughty and knocking down the ornaments! I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and colored it with distress markers and a water brush.

Behind the kitty image is small chunk of silver paper that I added some fun texture too using some embossing paste and a sweater pattern stencil.  Then I framed it in red cardstock to help the whole thing pop. The "naughty or nice" sentiment is also from the  Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set and was added on with some holiday bakers twine. Then for the base I used a scrap of red and green patterned paper from my stash and some red polka dot washi tape! I love how this turned out!

In case you haven't met Newton yet -- here's one of my favorite snapshots of him - he looks so happy sleeping! 

Make sure you check out all the blogs below as the whole NND Design team is participating along with some amazing guests! The next stop is Nichol Magouirk 

ENTER to WIN! 

We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $10 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Sunday, December 7th at 9 pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 8th.

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop

Newton's Nook Designs <--- You are here
Nichol Magouirk
Jennifer McGuire
Amy Sheffer
Laura Bassen
Heather Hoffman

Taheerah Atchia

Lydia Brooke

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Shellye McDaniel

Jess Moyer

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Tessa Wise

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws - Day 4 - Laura Bassen

Welcome to day four of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on TOMORROW - Friday, December 5th (with some give-aways, of course!) 
So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is Laura Bassen

I'm a wife & mother to five busy kids living in central Illinois. I also have the honor of working for several amazing companies, such as Simon Says Stamp, Papertrey Ink, Mama Elephant & Paper Smooches. I feel so very lucky & grateful to be doing what I love, at home, in my sweatpants:) 

http://laurafadora.wordpress.com

Here's what Laura created!

Laura created this adorable snowman card using our Frozen Friends Stamp set! I love how it's all soft blues and tonal and then their cute little hats are bright primary colors! It really makes the snow couple pop off the card, doesn't it? I love their rosy cheeks too. Then she also added some fun dimension to this card with the snowy dots in the sky! Super cute! 

Thanks so much, Laura for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 5th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Doublestick Heaven to say hello and see more of her amazing projects!

Tomorrow we will have a big BLOG HOP with all this weeks guest plus our FABULOUS NND Design Team  - so make sure you come back tomorrow - there will be prizes too! 

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws - Day 3 - Amy Sheffer

This is our second post today - to view the Papercrafts blog hop, scroll down or click here. 

Welcome to day three of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 5th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is Amy Sheffer

Hi all, my name is Amy Sheffer, and I’m excited to be joining Newton’s Nook Designs this week! I live in Virginia with my husband, three children, and two pets (one cat and one dog). I was introduced to scrapbooking nearly twenty years ago, and stamping and card making soon after. Paper crafting is my creative outlet and passion, and I love being part of the online community of paper crafting enthusiasts!
http://pickledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/

Here's what Amy created!

Amy created this sweet card with the bunny buried in the snow using our cut little Winter Tails Stamp set! I love all the layers of snow and the bits of sparkle that she added! Plus - the sequins and little wooden flakes give it the perfect finishing touch! This is such a fun card! 

This next cute card, also by Amy, features our naughty Newton from Newton's Holiday Mischief, getting tangled in the christmas lights. I love how she colored the kitty with little grey stripes! Plus she added a fun tree next to him  - do you think he pulled the lights of the tree? So adorable! 

Thanks so much, Amy for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 5th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Pickled Paper Designs to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have last special Guest  - Laura Bassen from Double Stick Heaven 

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again! 

Papercrafts & Scrapbooking Magazine Blog Hop

A Special Thank You to Papercrafts & Scrapbooking Magazine 

Hello and welcome to the blog hop today! Today's post is both a happy and sad one. I'm so happy to be joining over 200 bloggers to share our love of Papercrafts & Scrapbooking Magazine! But I'm also so sad that Papercrafts & Scrapbooking Magazine will soon be shutting it's doors. This magazine has been a source of inspiration to me for many years and it will be missed SO much! I always had a subscription - almost right from the beginning and have browsed every issue from cover to cover more than once! I want to take this chance to say THANK YOU to all the staff who helped to inspire over the years - and to all those who contributed their creations each month! It was truly a beautiful magazine and will be very much missed!

Thanks snow much!

So... to lighten the mood a bit, I'm sharing this whimsical thank you card! I used the sweet kitty buried in the snow from the Winter Tails stamp set.  I colored the kitty and added a bit of blue tint to the edges of the snow drift with copic markers. Then I fussy-cut out the image along the top edge and layered it on top of a piece of patterned paper that had snowflakes on it from my scrap pile. I then stamped the sign with the "thanks snow much" sentiment inside it on a separate piece of paper and colored it with copics. I fussy-cut this out and added it on with some dimensional dots so it pops out from the first layer. I added some little sequins for a sparkle among the snowflakes and I added some glitter along the edge of the snow. For the base layer of the card I used a piece of subtly patterned brown paper and some fun blue and white metallic striped washi tape! 

I hope that if you're feeling down about Papercrafts and Scrapbooking closing that this card helped make you smile a little today! I know that the spirit of the magazine and all the creativity inspired by it will surely live on! 

If you started at the beginning of the hop - you've got just a few stops left - if not, you can always go back to the first post  - it starts at Jennifer McGuire's blog. Make sure you've got some coffee - and sit back and relax while you page through all the inspiration. 

<----Previous Stop: Francine Vuillème

Next Stop: Alicia Thelin ----> 

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws - Day 2 - Jennifer McGuire

Welcome to day two of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 5th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Jennifer McGuire

An avid stamper, Jennifer McGuire has been sharing her card and scrapbook creations in countless publications and online since 2002. Notably, her work has been showcased in two special issues from Creating Keepsakes magazine: 101 Things to Do with Your Scrapbook Supplies (2007) and 101 Creative Ways to Use Your Scrapbook Supplies (2010). Most recently, her endeavors include sharing technique videos and inspiring stampers through Online Card Classes, which she co-founded with her dear friend Kristina Werner, and serving as Education Director for Hero Arts. Thanks to the high-energy classes Jennifer teaches both in-person and online, thousands of stampers all over the world have come to love stamping and cardmaking. Jennifer is both Copic and Ranger certified, which helps her take her students’ creativity to the next level.

You can currently find Jennifer’s work at Online Card Classes; at the Hero Arts blog and website and in their catalog; and, of course, at her own blog, Jennifer McGuire Ink. Jennifer resides in Cincinnati with her husband Ken, stepdaughter Audrey, son Colin, and daughter Lila. Her stepdaughter Kay attends college in Texas.

http://www.jennifermcguireink.com

Here's what Jennifer created!

When I asked Jennifer which of our holiday sets she'd like to work with she suggested she could use our Falling into Autumn stamp to create a project for Christmas - and she definitely succeeded! I love this idea of creating a whole tree from the fun leaves in this set! 

Thanks so much, Jennifer for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 5th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Jennifer McGuire Ink to see a VIDEO of her project today!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Amy Sheffer from Pickled Paper Designs 

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again!